In the Line of Duty (Fiction)

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Short story featuring Alysha Forrest's assistance with the evacuation of a freighter.

Publication Data

• Series: Stardancer
• Book: Published as part of To Discover and Preserve
• Publication Date: Don't Remember, To Discover and Preserve , which has this story as one of its stories, has publication date of Dec 27, 2021, but this story might have been published prior to that book.
• Editions: Ebook
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Blurb

When the UAV Scattersky answers a distress call, their captain is expecting a routine rescue operation and dispatches his first commander, Alysha Forrest, to manage the transfer of personnel. But naturally, things are never as easy as they seem on the surface....

Summary

They answer the distress call, start evacuating people, have some trouble as number of spacesuits not enough, fix that, and Alysha is told by the headmaster (Hawkings) that a number of Chatcaavan refugees are on the skin of the ship, cryogenic storage in the depressurized section, location unknown. She gets the water dwellers to help her find them, time is running out for safe evac of herself, gets them safe anyway. Gets radiation poisoning and a commendation.

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• Rating: G

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Available in the collection To Discover and Preserve.

Characters

Alysha Forrest